Indie Vibes & World Tribes: music, film, travel and...

Mali’s Tinariwen is one of only a handful of artists in the history of modern alternative popular music- The Beatles, Stones, Bowie and El...

He may wear an Afro and he may be Cuban, but Alex (Puentes) Cuba is definitely not Afro-Cuban, at least not his music… well, not much anyway...

Justin Adams is on something of a roll these days, at least as rolls go in the world music genre. In addition to his day job as Robert P...

Coachella and Lollapalooza may take the limelight, but world music has some good festivals, too, and a couple of the best are yet to come....

Our wild crazy modern global village creates some pretty incongruous combinations, but a griot in Washington , D.C. ? Yep, and his...

If the essence of any art, including music, is creative combination, then that’s reason enough to follow world music. I think of it like a g...

It's not like I traveled across the planet just to come to this small regional festival, but it's not like I didn't either. Oppo...

Don’t look now, but sincere heartfelt lyrics may just be making a comeback. Just when you (or I, that is) thought that hip-hop’s mindl...

If you’re a world music fan then you live for creative musical combinations- Cambodian psych-pop, Celtic salsa, Swedish bluegrass, etc...

It’s always been urban legend that handicapped people compensate for it in other ways, sharpening their other capabilities even to the poi...